What does a great team look like in business?
When you are trying to break out from being an ugly duckling to become a graceful swan one of the key areas to look at first is your team. Whether it is you first hire or your 50th, the people that...
Asset sweating
Asset sweating is the secret to profit, that is a simple fact. But many business owners don't understand what asset sweating is, let alone how to go about extracting the maximum profit from your...
Hitting the wall
Have you hit ‘the Wall’? How to achieve or rekindle growth is a hot topic amongst many entrepreneurs, consultants and academics alike. Many consider that the macro-economic conditions are the main...
Entrepreneurial Poverty
We benchmark our clients profits every year. In fact we build our database everytime we submit a VAT return, but that is based on management accounts and hence subject to changes at year end. Doing...
Pricing for profit
Do you price for profit? If you study pricing structure through both theory and practice you will know that prices result, or at least should result, from evidence of consumers’ psychology and...
Sweat equity funding
Entrepreneurs seeking investment tend to see it as cash. Others see it as a part buy-out for themselves, whereas nearly all ‘early stage’ investors place funds into the company to help it grow...
Key Predictive Indicators For Predicting Profits
Following on from the post about there being 'profit in your future' we thought that we should highlight how to know just how much profit there could be in your future. People, well advisors and say...
Profit in the future
To progress in your business you must be able to measure how you are moving forward, but how do you measure your business and then make decisions that help it to grow? Whether you are looking to...
What is your Elevator Pitch?
Elevator Pitch How do you create an elevator pitch? What is an elevator pitch for? These are just some of the questions that we come across at networking events and hopefully this blog will shine...
Stop thinking, start doing
We love to meet people who come to me with ideas, but in the same vein, We also hate people who only come to us with just the idea. Does that make any sense? There are those people who are full of...